Submitted by Middlesex Community College
Middlesex Community College will feature “The Iran Job,” the next installment in the 2012-13 International Film Series, to be screened at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 28, in MCC’s Bedford Campus Center Café East, 591 Springs Road. Free and open to the public, the program begins with light refreshments, and concludes with a post-screening discussion with the film’s director Till Schauder.
“The Iran Job” follows American basketball player Kevin Sheppard as he accepts a job to play in one of the world’s most feared countries, Iran. Kevin’s season in Iran culminates in something much bigger than basketball: the uprising and subsequent suppression of Iran’s reformist Green Movement – this turns out to be a powerful prelude to the sweeping changes across the Middle East in the wake of the Arab Spring.
Directors Schauder and Sara Nodjoumi take a fresh look at Iranians. Their close work with Elahah, Laleh and Hilda, three outspoken women who became friends with Kevin, allows the film to address everything from politics to religion to gender roles.
MCC’s 2013-13 International Film Series is supported by a grant from the Middlesex Community College Foundation. For more Film Series information, contact Art Professor Jan Arabas at [email protected] or 781-280-3784.
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